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An Auxiliary CHD Diagnostic System Based on Multi-view and Multi-modal Transthoracic Echocardiograms

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However, inexperienced sonographers often face difficulties in recognizing CHD through transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) images. After the child completed the TTE examination, Xie’s auxiliary CHD diagnostic system automatically analyzed the TTE images and computed the probability of each subject being normal, having ASD, or having VSD.

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Basic Principles of Colour Doppler Echocardiography

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Usual colour Doppler echocardiogram is superimposition of colour Doppler images on a two dimensional echocardiogram. Colour M-Mode is superimposition of colour Doppler images on an M-Mode echocardiogram. For example, when the VSD is small, the pressure difference between the right and left ventricles is high.

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Single Frame Echo Quiz

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Similarly, for echocardiogram, what we would do usually is, first we do a clinical history evaluation, then physical examination, and after that only we proceed with echocardiography in our routine work. You can see the two dimensional sector imaging from an echocardiogram and I have marked out the aorta.